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programbreeding commented on Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2 apple.com/newsroom/2024/0... · Posted by u/hnuser0000

ren_engineer · 2 years ago

>With Mac Virtual Display, users can even bring the powerful capabilities of their Mac into Vision Pro, creating an enormous, private, and portable 4K display, ideal for pro workflows

this to me would be the more immediate selling point(compared to more consumer type stuff), if this is good enough to replace external monitors so I can essentially have my ideal setup wherever I want. Companies could offer these as a return to office incentive, in theory they would cut back on a lot of the productivity complaints of open office compared to home office.

programbreeding · 2 years ago

>Companies could offer these as a return to office incentive

So an office full of people with VR headsets on? I don't see the incentive in that compared to doing it from home.

programbreeding commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023) · Posted by u/whoishiring

programbreeding · 3 years ago

FlightAware | multiple roles | REMOTE (US timezones) | Houston / US | https://flightaware.com/about/careers/

Hello from FlightAware! We are hiring for a number of positions including: software test engineer, network reliability engineer, and software engineer. Our team is headquartered in Houston, Texas, but we work as a distributed team and accept remote applicants for work within the United States.

FlightAware has built the world’s leading aviation software platform, processing over 180 million incoming messages an hour from over 30,000 feeds -- over 2TB a day and growing -- to provide the best, most complete, and most accurate real-time flight tracking services in the industry. We use Python, Rust, C++, Tcl, and JavaScript. We are proud to have built a wide variety of successful products on this foundation that have become central to the aviation industry at large.

programbreeding commented on Why Retaining Walls Collapse practical.engineering/blo... · Posted by u/chmaynard

programbreeding · 4 years ago

I watch a lot of Grady's videos and there's a comment I've always wanted to make but I don't leave comments on YouTube. I'm going to leave that comment here: it would be great if he spent more time going over the models that he builds and really showing what they're representing. Show it from different angles, show it in slow motion; really explain what's happening and what we're seeing. Note: I haven't watched this particular video yet.

He clearly spends a lot of time building high quality small-scale versions of things to show how they work, but more often than not he just shows those things while the voiceover isn't actually talking about what's being shown. Or when he is talking about the thing being shown, it's a very brief comment and then he moves on.

I love his videos, but I very often finish them and think "I could have learned more if he spent some more time explaining in detail what's happening with the model, and replaying some component of it several times over as he explains it in more detail."

programbreeding commented on Zillow just gave us a look at machine learning's future vinvashishta.substack.com... · Posted by u/amrrs

tguvot · 4 years ago

There was a post on Blind a few days ago from somebody who works in Zillow, stating that management disregarded models and decided to go instead with "intuition"

programbreeding · 4 years ago

What is Blind? I tried searching various things but just keep getting results for accessibility.

programbreeding commented on Norm Macdonald Dead: Comedian and 'SNL' Star Was 61 variety.com/2021/tv/news/... · Posted by u/furcyd

programbreeding · 4 years ago

Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28528756

programbreeding commented on Reprogramming a Sennheiser Microphone vgnotepad.blogspot.com/20... · Posted by u/drmacak

formerly_proven · 4 years ago

I like Sennheiser because they make at least some stuff still in Europe (vs. many competitors who pretty much live off of made in china copies of classic designs). It's just weird that Sennheiser is very quiet about it, they used to have a "MADE IN GERMANY" on a lot of stuff, directly silk-screened or molded into cases etc. -- this has disappeared. At first I suspected that production for these products was offshored, but it wasn't (still says Made in Germany in the fine-print). Kinda odd.

programbreeding · 4 years ago

Complete guess here but I would suspect that means some items are made in Germany and some are made in China or elsewhere (meaning, even the same model may be produced in both locations). If they are printing "MADE IN GERMANY" directly on it then it will be obvious which ones aren't, because they would lack the print. And that would likely degrade the perceived quality of those not made in Germany vs those that are. And Sennheiser doesn't want you to think that some of their items are built with better quality than others.

Of course, people can look at the fine-print and determine where it was made. But that's a lot less obvious than the silk screened badge not being there.

programbreeding commented on I won a month-long hackathon in 3 hours onmattersconcerningmyexis... · Posted by u/devinsit

jeffrallen · 4 years ago

Umm, yeah. But if I found this while doing background research on a job candidate I'd have to think twice about if this guy was really someone I wanted on my team... be careful what you brag about cheating on, lest you let people see the real you.

programbreeding · 4 years ago

Or it shows that he's open and honest. And that's definitely someone I would want on my team.

programbreeding commented on Microsoft is bringing Android apps to Windows 11 theverge.com/2021/6/24/22... · Posted by u/ArchUser2255

bilal4hmed · 4 years ago

Thats fantastic, but how does this work with purchases made on the Play store. If I bought an app on the Play Store does it carry across to Amazon ?

programbreeding · 4 years ago

Unless something has changed recently that I'm unaware of, that definitely isn't currently possibly on Android itself. I assume it won't be possible using the Windows-version of the Amazon AppStore either. But maybe this will cause the devs to start pushing to make that a thing.

programbreeding commented on Italy demands €733M in fines from food delivery platforms politico.eu/article/italy... · Posted by u/Svip

cwhiz · 5 years ago

Meanwhile, these companies can't make any money as it is.[0]

At some point maybe we should consider that this model is completely broken. The gig workers hate it, the restaurants hate it, and the delivery companies can't make a profit. What in the fresh hell are we doing where nearly every part of this "economy" is mad about it?

[0]: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/doordash-shares-sink-as-re...

programbreeding · 5 years ago

I'm not saying this is a reason to do it, but the part of the model that isn't broken is that people love it. The consumers are benefiting.